OK so the constant reporting and albeit media hype regarding the storm is not sitting well with you. Well the so called media hypes everything now.
The media is all about ratings not news anymore. Welcome to the corporate world of the media now. They are in it to make money not tell the news at
all anymore. Sorry that you feel there is a ridiculous amount of hype to this storm that the weather meteorologists have no model for. If they were
not proactive about warning everyone and this storm ended up killing tons of people, I bet you would be BIOTCHING about OBAMA never let people know
about the storm or OBAMA did nothing or the Government let another Katrina happen, etc, etc, etc. Sorry you can not have it both ways.

Americans have become hopelessly pussified, prone to hysteria, hype and whining. Id send the entire nation on a 1 month survival-safari in the tsunami
stricken forests of Indeonesia or the war-torn jungles of congo. Then, when they come back they wont be complaining about a little bit of wind and
rain.

Originally posted by Skyfloating
Americans have become hopelessly pussified, prone to hysteria, hype and whining. Id send the entire nation on a 1 month survival-safari in the tsunami
stricken forests of Indeonesia or the war-torn jungles of congo. Then, when they come back they wont be complaining about a little bit of wind and
rain.

There'd also be a lot less come back which wouldn't hurt the nation either I imagine.

I have to agree with you on the media hype, but the MSM will be the MSM, and that's across the board. But I do have one word for you - Katrina - if
there were to be any perception after the fact that we were under-prepared and under-warned, or if it actually turned out worse than expected, and
thousands died, there'd be a lot of finger pointing and blaming, and probably rightfully so. You know, the whole prepare for the worst thing. I'd
rather see that than a lot of senseless deaths.

Originally posted by Skyfloating
Americans have become hopelessly pussified, prone to hysteria, hype and whining. Id send the entire nation on a 1 month survival-safari in the tsunami
stricken forests of Indeonesia or the war-torn jungles of congo. Then, when they come back they wont be complaining about a little bit of wind and
rain.

I am sure if you walked into an American bar and proclaimed Americans are as you put it pussified; I will bet you would have your proverbial A$$
handed to you in short fashion. To be honest I find you generalization of all Americans typical of the hypocritical statements from most people from
other nations. Americans can be hypocritical as well, but I don't make blanket statements about Brits or Australians.

Originally posted by Skyfloating
Americans have become hopelessly pussified, prone to hysteria, hype and whining. Id send the entire nation on a 1 month survival-safari in the tsunami
stricken forests of Indeonesia or the war-torn jungles of congo. Then, when they come back they wont be complaining about a little bit of wind and
rain.

But this isn't Indonesia or the Congo. Those people rarely have early warnings for those types of events so they do have much higher incidents of
deaths, and other losses from them.

I am rather appalled by some of the comments on ATS the last couple of days, and really this one smacks of that. What is wrong with people wishing
suffering on anybody? Americans or otherwise?

Originally posted by FlyersFan
It's been raining and winding here for 12 hours already ....
And the storm isn't even supposed to make landfall until tonight...
And the EYE isn't even supposed to pass over us until 36 hours from now ...
And this thing has bad/severe weather from Bristol TN to Boston ....
And that's a lot of people in harms way ...

This is the strangest hurricane I've ever been in.
It's freak'n COLD and RAW and MISERABLE.

Everyone needs to be prepared. There are a lot of us who need meds or special foods (autoimmune diet) that require refrigeration. There is a hell of
a lot of water coming down .... and coming in .... and a lot of people in harms way.

This isn't hyped. It's a huge FRANKENSTORM ...

Humble apologies, FF. Of course the needs of many with extenuating medical issues is paramount.

Originally posted by Skyfloating
Americans have become hopelessly pussified, prone to hysteria, hype and whining. Id send the entire nation on a 1 month survival-safari in the tsunami
stricken forests of Indeonesia or the war-torn jungles of congo. Then, when they come back they wont be complaining about a little bit of wind and
rain.

The northeastern portion of the US was known for it's "Yankee common sense" upon a time.

Batten down the hatches, leave if you need to, always have water and supplies.

Why the run on supplies now?

People are unprepared.

We live in a "microwave" society now where what they want should be avaliable in 60 seconds or less.

People don't know hardship anymore.

The hype and hyperbole stemming from the media is probably the only way to motivate some.

This IS full media hype, over blown to the max. Strike fear into the hearts of the quivering masses, and they will rush to WallyWorld and SPEND all
their money on batteries, candles, generators, etc. I'm sure sales of these type of items have skyrocketed due to all the hype. WalMart makes
billions, I'm sure insurance companies are posting record volumes right now as well.

This is a garden variety Category One hurricane, which is 500 miles out in the ocean, and most likely will spin off out to sea. Just like ALL THE
OTHER ONES THIS YEAR DID. Having been through over twenty hurricanes, including Andrew in Miami and Wilma in Cancun, the two strongest ever recorded,
and seven times on board boats,I think I'm qualified to say this is much ado over nothing. First hurricane that has a slight possibility of making
landfall this year. You might see some wind and lots of rain. Some tree branches on the road. Maybe an entire tree will even fall. Oh no. If you
are not a shrimper or fisherman you will be fine.

Anyone more than a few blocks from the ocean has NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. Unless, of course, you live in an entire city that is below sea level, and
the government had stopped all maintenance on levees years ago, so that they were in well known bad condition. Oh, wait.

And the comment about the rich white guys? Uh, right on the MONEY. New England is where all the rich people live, I know because I grew up there,
and you better believe they will get far better and quicker response to anything. Like they always do. Maybe you've never noticed that rich
neighborhoods somehow have better streets, and get the snow plowed first and better in winter storms?

Well, at the risk of sounding "pussified" I'd like to point out that in order to say this situation is hype you have to ignore the data. That would
include this storm now ranking number 1 in the lowest pressure hurricane north of Hatteras, knocking the 1938 historic hurricane to second
position.

You'd have to ignore that right now - 12 hours before the actual meat of the storm arrives - New Jersey is about to reach 50 mph sustained winds and
is flooded....Connecticut, flooded....Norfolk, flooded...Delaware, flooded. New York...flooding.

So 12 hours from now, when structures have endured 12 hours of high winds and collapsed and when this storm rolls in with high tide and up to 11 foot
storm surges, the efforts by the scientific community to impart warnings of the dangers that were approaching can still be called "pussified" if you
want to, but you'll look pretty asswipe doing it, to be quite honest.

NOAA's not scared for themselves. They fear for their fellow citizens. My concern is not for myself (whether I was in the path or not), but for my
fellow citizens.

There are elderly that are homebound that may still be in their homes if no one assisted them in evacuating. Those homes may not survive. A blizzard
is predicted to couple the immense rain, so these people will be without electricity, most likely, in cold wet conditions.

Most elderly people aren't "pussified". In fact, they have endured more than the average braggert behind a keyboard. They are just old and
vulnerable. Shame on NOAA for trying to let them know what was coming. Shame on us all for giving a crap.

Alright.
It is a bad storm.
Halloween is a bad time for storms on the east coast, 1991, 2011 and this year too.
Do you think that they are so out of touch as to not have taken precautions?

If something along the lines of Sandy hit the west coast* or one of our 7 - 8 earthquakes hit the east coast then 'yes' it would be a horrible,
disaster.
However, they are prepped for this sort of situation, This one may be worse than last years and I don't think the majority of people on the east
coast are dumb enough to fall for a Katrina like situation where they are herded into a sports arena and locked down like prisoners while their homes
are looted.

*Actually I think we could weather such a storm a bit better since 95% of our above storm surge high ground starts 50- 500 yards inland and the home
on the beach are insured out the ying yang.

I'm only concerned with the flooding here on lower Delmarva.....I live in a flood plain expected to get surges up to 9ft tonight around
midnight......Irene just missed flooding my laundry room, the water was up to 2ft in some areas......the storm has not hit yet and its surpassing
Irene.....

Heres a pic taken a hour ago...

On a side note..us on Delmarva are virtually unimportant.....heaven forbid leaves fall off a tree in NY, NJ, MASS....its too obvious who they really
give a crap about.

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